The fight to slow the swine – flu pandemic escalated in Orange County today with the opening of two public clinics that drew thousands of people for a quick sniff of vaccine. The county’s Health Care Agency estimated that it gave out at …
With the opening of school just two weeks away, a group of the nation’s leading scientists sounded a frightening alarm this week about the coming second stage of the worldwide swine flu pandemic.
A prominent expert on global flu outbreaks, with the University of Minnesota, Michael Osterholm said, “What makes this so difficult is we may be somewhere between an important but yet still uneventful public health occurrence here — with something that could literally die out over the next couple of weeks and never show up again — or this could be the opening act of a full-fledged influenza pandemic.” Yesterday, I was talking to a friend and the first thing she asked me is, “Have you read abo
The BBC reports that A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial horns in a plane to ward off swine flu. About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting prayers and blowing horns, called shofars. The flight’s aim was “to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it,” Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri was quoted as saying in Yedioth Aharanot newspaper
August 12th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Precautions Against Swine FluGood standard flu prevention techniques are recommended to protect yourself against swine flu: Get a regular seasonal flu vaccination.
“Until now, what I’m about to tell you would have been easily dismissed as a conspiracy theory. It’s the kind of story that you might expect from some extreme fringe blogger… the kind of story that never appears in the mainstream media. Only today, it did.
The weeks just seem to fly past and I note it was over a week ago that I updated this. So what have I done since then – well apart from work, sleep and eat I have attended meetings which include information about Pandemic flu in ethnic communities (it was extremely interesting and came in useful yesterday when my younger daughter could not stop sneezing and was quizzing me on the symptoms of swine flu). I also went to a meeting about the opening of a Phase 3 Children’s Centre in Pilkington
Yesterday I read an article about how humans can give Swine Flu to Pigs . Irony at its finest. Today I see the headline that it is even more dangerous than before and fully expected it to be about pigs getting swine flu, but alas I am mistaken
The measures were angrily denounced in Mexico, which was the center of the swine flu outbreak that has since spread around the world, and been declared a pandemic b y the World Health Organization (WHO)….”I regret that I did not talk first” to Minister Jose Angel Cordova, Chen said on the sidelines of a meeting in Cancun about the swine flu pandemic….
